Betting Market Rankings for Horse Racing November 04, 2017 In honor of today's Breeders' Cup races, here is my first attempt at creating a betting market ranking for thoroughbred horse raci...
Free Throw Deep Dives: Accuracy Scatter Plots May 29, 2017 In an effort to fill the void during this year's Superbowl-like interlude before the NBA Finals, I have added one more tool to my series...
Free Throw Deep Dives: The Windup and the Release May 06, 2017 Part three of an infrequent series . Click here to go straight to the interactive tool. In previous free throw deep dives, I used SportVU...
Playoff Seed Probability Motion Charts April 14, 2017 As I have done the last few seasons , here are motion charts that show how each team's playoff seed probabilities have evolved and s...
Free Throw Deep Dives: Picking Your Spot January 21, 2017 Note: Similar to my recent " deflategate " post, the following utilizes SportVU data on player and ball position. Sadly, this dat...
Deflategate follow up: Game charts for all 30 NBA teams January 09, 2017 In my NBA deflategate analysis , I shared charts for several teams that showed game by game coefficient of restitution for home games. Coef...
A Deflategate Analysis for the NBA January 08, 2017 Phil Jackson, 1986 : "We'd try to take some air out of the ball. You see, on the ball it says something like 'inflate ...